Accidentally guessed a new longest word?

[crazykate]

SPHAEROCOBALTITE (30 pts.)

I played COBALTITE and COBALTITES before playing around with the remaining letters. Plural s doesn't work on the big one, unfortunately.
I tried AEROCOBALTITE first, but that doesn't seem to exist.

[Spike1007]

I'm impressed! I'm pretty sure that SPHAERO- would never have occurred to me. (Maybe not the COBALTITE either.)

[crazykate]

RESURRECTIONISED (30 points). As a swiper, when I see a word like resurrection that's ling enough but very common, I often slide a few letters further just to get a good look at the renaining letters. I was looking for a prefix, didn't expect the suffix to score.

[InsertNameHere]

Originally Posted by lalatan

Thanks Spike. btw, I beat Evelyn64's records 3 times this week. All of her previous records were <20 pts. I think if the best word record is 26+ pts it's pretty well unbeatable in my experience. (which is possibly why you chose it as your threshold value. ) The only hope of bettering it would be if the previous record holder missed a prefix or suffix they could have added. I bettered someone's 38 pt record this week by adding in- to their word for 42 pts. As you said, nobody's invincible.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had a board just a while ago and fatpagan2 held the record. there seemed to be one better word out there, so I played it. All I could find was ORGANIZATION, and apparently that's all fatpagan2 could find too. Then I remembered your "adding in-" comment and did just that. INORGANIZATION for two new records. Woohoo!

[lalatan]

You're welcome. Nice find

[lalatan]

Well, this one surprised me just now: SEARCHINGNESSES (28/15) Can't conceive of ever using that in a sentence!

Spike, what happened to your post in this thread about finding BRACHYDIAGONAL and WEATHERGLASSES? I saw it late last night and this a.m. it was gone. I thought it was interesting. A little less exotic than your find but I uncovered PARALLELOGRAMMATIC a few days ago.

[lalatan]

While playing a board yesterday I saw IMPORTANT early but knew it wouldn't be worth enough pts. So when I saw super- I ventured SUPERIMPORTANT. It was valid for 26 pts. I have heard and spoken the word but haven't seen it in written form so did not know it was a compound word until yesterday.

[justno]

Total points: 44
Total words: 2 (0 common,0 wide,0 rare,2 ultra rare)
Best word: SCAPHOCEPHALOUS (28 pts.) New record!New record!
Longest word: SCAPHOCEPHALOUS (15 letters) New record!New record!
PUZZLE STATS:

Played: 44 times
Average Score: 226.1 points
Average Words: 56.6 words
High Score: 441 points by knishes9
Most Words: 102 words by knishes9
Best Word: SPEALS (10 pts) by Orangina9
Longest Word: HOPEFULS (8 letters) by jeremyb

I'm glad my strategy of randomly swiping in letters that somewhat sound like plausible combinations finally worked (I knew the -CEPHALOUS part, though)

[Spike1007]

That strategy generally has worked for me (although I type, not swipe). Congratulations though! I'll have to watch for the SCAPHO- prefix. Thanks.

[Spike1007]

Earlier today I cobbled a word together. It was GONADECTOMIES, I liked it, although it's somewhat painful to think about.